It seems Vmware has a product called VMware vSphere 4 Essentials Plus, and their Buy it now page shows it costing about 5000 dollars for 3 year platinum support, 2 CPUs and 3 servers.

Three changes reduce the burden of VMware's licensing price hikes, but it's best to also adopt open source hypervisors to counter the hikes EMC VMware’s vSphere 5 new licensing model raised eyebrows ...

We're looking at using ESXi 5 on a couple of dual CPU r510s with 128GB of RAM each, but without a SAN. We really just want to be able to utilize the hosts for multiple VMs, but our redundancy is ...

The newly announced VMware vSphere 5 has a new “pooled” pricing model that charges customers based on the virtual memory configured in a virtual server. The model does away with limitations on the ...

VMware repackaged its vSphere family of data center and cloud virtualization applications to help more SMBs adopt the technology and better compete with Microsoft's Hyper-V technology. That ...